Cougar Town, Modern Family and The Middle have been picked up for full seasons, reps for the ABC series confirm to TVGuide.com.
The news of ABC ordering more episodes of the Wednesday night comedy block — sans Hank — comes a day after...
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Sacred Heart's resident janitor is scrubbing into a new role. Scrubs star Neil Flynn has been tapped to play Patricia Heaton's husband in ABC's sitcom pilot, The Middle, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
The family comedy will focus on Flynn's and Heaton's middle-class characters struggling to
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The Middle, an ABC pilot which was (unsuccesfully) developed for the 2006-07 TV season and then starred Ricki Lake, has been given new life. According to the Reporter, the Alphabet network has awarded the comedy (about a middle-class Midwestern family) a pick-up, provided that Patricia Heaton is landed as the lead.CBS' Two and a Half Men went through a similar process, when its pilot was picked up contingent upon Charlie Sheen joining the cast.Should producer Warner Bros. sign Raymond's wife, she would potentially reunite at ABC with Back to You bud Kelsey Grammer, who's headlining the pilot Roman's Empire. — Matt Mitovich
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Having sitcom stalwarts Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton in starring roles wasn't enough for Fox to bring Back to You back to you, the viewer, for a second season. "This was not an easy decision," said Fox Entertainment chief Kevin Reilly. "But with that kind of top-profile talent and...proximity to [American Idol] in the second half of the season, the expectations were higher."Reilly emphasized Fox is working to develop a live-action comedy franchise, but Back To You didn't seem to fit that bill. "The show did not seem to be strking a chord, and in terms of creative direction...it was a pretty mixed bag," he said. The show did go down with a fight. It got off to a strong start when it debuted last fall, attracting more than nine million viewers. Two episodes that followed Idol in April each brought in more than 12 million sets of eyeballs. While that's respectable — it won its timeslot on those two occasions, in terms of viewers and the highly coveted adult 18-49 group —...
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Sure Kelsey Grammer is worth his weight in sitcom gold but Back to You Wednesdays at 830 pmET Fox relies as much on the ballast of Patricia Heatons caustic Kelly Carr as it does on his pompous anchor Chuck Darling The former Everybody Loves Raymond star explained why she doesnt live in her old shows shadow GJ Donnelly TV Guide Whats in store for Kelly and ChuckPatricia Heaton Generally their relationship and whether they should reveal that hes Gracies father will come to a head The pressures on Chuck to get over his Peter Pan complexTV Guide Kellys like Moe Howard in the way she keeps everybody in line Heaton [Laughs] Thats a great metaphor Debra Barone was like that But Kelly is allowed her craziness tooTV Guide Whats it like playing off Kelsey Heaton Its like flint We spark off each other Its different than with Ray Romano whose character was more hangdogTV Guide And no
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